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indeterministical crashes

Hello,
I have a strange problem with my HTC Artemis (O2 XDA branded, bought in Germany, no lock)
It behaves unstable and indeterministic.
Unstable means that it crashes/stucks or turns off.
Indeterministic means that it happens when i plugg it to charger, when i'm syncing, when a phone rings, when using applications/tomtom or just i arrive to work and i find the device off.
When it crashes or i find it off, the biggest problem is to boot the device. It takes me typically 10mins, when i'm always trying to press the power button, push the reset button or unplugg the battery for a while in random order until i bring it to work.
After first crach, the device also often crashes or stucks again during the boot process.
Once, the device was so dead, that it took me two days to bring it into bootloader mode and then i could at least flash the ROM.
All these was happening with ARTEMIS TOUCH 4.01 WWE - LITE NO CUBE.
Yesterday, i switched to ARTEMIS TOUCH 4.02 WWE - LITE NO CUBE (burned FW twice) without installing any other applications and the problems are still here
My personal feeling is that it is getting every week worser.
When i bought the device (eBay), there was original FW with Win Mobile 5 on it, i immediately flashed to ARTEMIS TOUCH 3.01(?) WWE - FULL WITH CUBE, i can only remember that that time I had a problem with gsm radio - from time to time i found it stucked/off - to bring it to work i had to reset the device. So i flashed to 4.01 and this issue was away, but approx 2months ago, the above described behaviour has started and nowdays i'm fighting with it 2-3x a day.
so, can anybody help?
GiZMo

Similar here
I have a similar problem, what's really strange to me is, that as far as i can recall it started happening 2 months ago or so also!! weird huh...
my device simply reboots from time to time! even while i'm making a call.
the weird thing about these reboots is that when it comes back to live i do not have to enter my pin to enable the phone! everytime i perform a manual reboot (by software, using the pin or remove battery) i have to insert my pin to able to make a call...
i have upgraded from 3.01 full touch to 4.02 full touch about the time it started, i have now 4.02 vanilla touch but problem still occurs from time to time.
any ideas?

Im another one to join this boat!
Bought an MDA C 3, two days ago, bought of someone from gumtree.com.
Worked fine for the first hour, and then locked up - nothing on the screen, no LED. Only way to get it going was to remove battery and then press power button.
I upgraded the ROM from the original t-mob UK WM5 to mechles fine release: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=371182
The lock-ups / crashes have now become rarer, on average every 4 hours (before was every 1 hour).
There is no pattern to them either, although I have saw the screen trun all corrupted just before it happens. The last one was caused when I pressed the 'start' button.
I'm on a T-Mob contract, and lost my Kaiser, got ripped of when I tryed to replace it by a tosser on here for $375 Thief on the loose thread, and was hoping my luck had changed when I bought this one!!
It is T-mob branded and I wonder if there isn't a fix on here, would T-Mob repair it under warranty??

same "issue" with no entering of PIN after reboot. But not always

GiZMoSK said:
ARTEMIS TOUCH 3.01(?) WWE - FULL WITH CUBE, i can only remember that that time I had a problem with gsm radio - from time to time i found it stucked/off - to bring it to work i had to reset the device.
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here i found a good description of that issue:
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Originally Posted by lasertony
I've got the same problem as !Novy, but nobody seems to have noticed his question. Are there any other guys out there with this strange problem ? I have been using this rom for a while and sometimes, without any visual warning the phone freezes up. This is particularly ennoying because there is no way to check wether it is working or not. Every other function or software keeps working ! The phone is just not receiving any calls or sms. So you can miss an entire day of calls and sms without knowing... Only when trying to call somebody the dialer says 'Dialing...' and nothing happens. No connection.
A soft reset is needed to get the phone working again.
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btw, now i'm again trying to turn the device on, it's again stuck. grrr

Hello,
i had a few weeks ago a similar strange behaviour.
After changing the sd-card I had problems to turn the device on. After a hard reset it began to boot but hang.
The I flashed back to original O2 ROM. Then I had a unpredictable behaviour. Somtimes no sound. Sometimes I cound not be called. Sometimes Error message "no sim card". After every reset i had an other error.
Hard reset and flashing was no solution. Removing battery for less than 4 hours has no effect.
Then I wanted to send it back for repair. I took of the battery. The next day I wanted to try a last time and surprise: The device works fine without an error. Its hard to believe, but the removal of the battery for more than 8 hours was the solution.
Now I use it for 5 weeks without a problem.
regards
Andre

It is Happening to my device too!!
It stucks every 2-3 hours!Tried many of the cooked ROMs but nothing.Also tried all the radio roms for 1-2 days.still the same!
It stucks with no particular reason.SOmetimes in s2u2 sometimes when am receiving a call.... etc.
Had the pin problem too for 3-4 times!
I will try your sugestion ANDRE and we will see!
Also i will try flashing the original rom,cid unlock and then flash the cood rom twice!
Fingers crosed....

Andre1210 said:
Its hard to believe, but the removal of the battery for more than 8 hours was the solution.
Now I use it for 5 weeks without a problem.
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didn't help
happy u
now, i will try to flash back original german o2 rom

I think mine is sorted now, thanks to a new battery.
Installed it on Wednesday and hasn't died/crashed once since then.
I did notice before that the battery was getting warm, and I stuck the handset on the vent of my AC in the car, and this seemed to make the phone more stable.
Got one from Deal Extreme or try the XDA shop.
It worked for me!!

bricked or not?
did my device get bricked?
last friday i wanted to change firmware and during step1-cid unlocking (device should never been cid locked) pda got stucked. So i unplugged it and since then i cannot turn it on or get it into bootloader mode.
the only proof of life is when I take away battery and plugg it to power supply, then the red diod turns on and off for 1/2sec.
any idea what to do?

Vinnie1 said:
I think mine is sorted now, thanks to a new battery.
Installed it on Wednesday and hasn't died/crashed once since then.
I did notice before that the battery was getting warm, and I stuck the handset on the vent of my AC in the car, and this seemed to make the phone more stable.
Got one from Deal Extreme or try the XDA shop.
It worked for me!!
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I thought it was a battery problem too, but I've 2 batteries and both are died in the same time? I think it's too strange...
My P3300 have this problem from when it is returned from assistence and with original firmware (without other applications).

dude i think u bricked ur device i am sorry to convey such a message!
now its time for CPR go to xda wiki and try the SD flashing get ur device back to life man
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Artemis_SD_Card_Flashing
GiZMoSK said:
did my device get bricked?
last friday i wanted to change firmware and during step1-cid unlocking (device should never been cid locked) pda got stucked. So i unplugged it and since then i cannot turn it on or get it into bootloader mode.
the only proof of life is when I take away battery and plugg it to power supply, then the red diod turns on and off for 1/2sec.
any idea what to do?
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jahrami said:
dude i think u bricked ur device i am sorry to convey such a message!
now its time for CPR go to xda wiki and try the SD flashing get ur device back to life man
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Artemis_SD_Card_Flashing
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but i cannot get into bootloader mode so no flashing from SD card or PC

bricked device
so my device ist still dead
is there any possibility to hard flash bootloader (when corrupt)? or the only way is to change the mainboard?

GiZMoSK said:
so my device ist still dead
is there any possibility to hard flash bootloader (when corrupt)? or the only way is to change the mainboard?
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the good sign are the leds that means you have a very good chance...the guy made the piont...check the wiki

random crashes are often caused by hardware malfunction...sometimes the connection on the motherboard stuck,get broken or make a short-circuit...so check the hardware

screen lock wont unlock?? URGENT HELP!!

Why did this happen?? I've had absolutly no problems before, using a customised rom and everything has been very smooth lately, until today, I used my GPS on the way to the beach, so the phone had 14% battery by the time I got there, I switched it off, about 5 hours ago, turned it on, and when I enter my normal screen PIN CODE **4 Digits** it wont work??? why??? i'm trying to reset the device now to like default rom or a different rom, but the problem is it wont connect via activesync unless I put the screen code in.... I am 100% sure i didnt change the screencode or anything... all i done was switch the phone off, and back on a few hours later :S HELP ME PLEASE??!!! I've taken out the battery, sim card, and SD Card and tried without the sim card and SD and still same problem.... Neva had this problem before... what do I do?!! right now ive just taken out everything and leaving it on the table!! PLease HELP ME OUT!!

ps: this is the normal screen lock... from within windows... not a sim card lock or anything... the lock you do from the start menu... just the simple one... still very confused!!! nothings working!!! i enter it wrong a few times and it says enter a1b2c3 to re-enter codes again.... wth??!!

do you have a backup of the device? If so I would try restoring a back up from a few days ago and try unlocking it then. Otherwise I have a feeling that a hard reset is in your future.

hard-reset okay cool, i dont have anything important, ive backed up everything from a few days back, will only lose a few days worth of messages thats all... how do i hard reset? i'm gonna go search, but plz point me towards a link thnx... hope i dont have to return it to manufactorer or warranty or something like that :S

First turn off the phone. Press and hold the pickup and disconnect buttons simultaneously and turn on the phone.

Thnx I found it, all I did was search google for Hard-Reset HTC Touch Pro 2... That was really stupid though how it locked and wouldnt accept my password?? still confused as to how that happened :S

This has just happened to me - switched the phone off for the night and in the morning it won't accept my password.
Anyone else had this problem or know of a solution? Have the cooks ironed this out on their ROMS? (I'm using stock orange ROM).

[Q] Radio dead - no connection

Hey folks,
Something strange happened to my HTC One X. Everything has been working as expected. As I was getting on a plane, I put my phone in flight mode. Right up to the point where I put it in flight mode, it was working fine - calls, data, everything. When I got to the other side and took off flight mode, it showed NO SERVICE. It will no longer connect to any network. I've tried several SIMs with no luck. I'm running CM 10.2 nightly builds, but I've reinstalled several different ROMs with no luck. Is my radio broken? Admittedly, I have been installing different radios, but I can't see how that could be the problem. It had been days since I installed a new radio, and it was working fine up to this flight.
If I use a tool like Test Your Android and view the SIM card information, it shows the correct SIM country, Operator Code, but no phone number. If I got to Settings, the IMEI shows normally as does the baseband. It just refuses to connect. Any ideas?

A month ago, somewhere in Vietnam, i put my phone in airplane mode while inside the plane. on landing i tried to turn the airplane mode off but it stuck in "turning off" and no network i was using a Vietnamese sim-card, so i took it off and i put back my tmobile one sim but that didn't help. i got stressed and i kept changing sims, turning the phone on and off, pressing the airplane mode button while sim tray was in or out , was trying every possible combination that i could think. after 30 minutes it found a network somehow and it came out of the airplane mode that was stuck. i couldn't believe it. Tho dunno what really fixed it but keep trying...

Interesting, thanks for sharing that. I have the feeling that if I were to go back to Spain, it would connect to Movistar again. But the question is, what do I do for the next two weeks.... =/
I will keep trying for sure.
n1kos said:
A month ago, somewhere in Vietnam, i put my phone in airplane mode while inside the plane. on landing i tried to turn the airplane mode off but it stuck in "turning off" and no network i was using a Vietnamese sim-card, so i took it off and i put back my tmobile one sim but that didn't help. i got stressed and i kept changing sims, turning the phone on and off, pressing the airplane mode button while sim tray was in or out , was trying every possible combination that i could think. after 30 minutes it found a network somehow and it came out of the airplane mode that was stuck. i couldn't believe it. Tho dunno what really fixed it but keep trying...
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I just noticed something else. My battery is being drained constantly by Phone. As long as the device is powered on, Phone is using the battery. It's like the radio is stuck in call mode. wtf???

I exactly have the same issue.. Been searching for solution everywhere.. an somebody pls help us?

mcoolit23 said:
I exactly have the same issue.. Been searching for solution everywhere.. an somebody pls help us?
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I eventually figured out my problem. Bad SIMs all the way. My SIM went bad, and the other two I tested with happened to both have gone bad. Finally got a good SIM and everything was back to normal.

boughness said:
I eventually figured out my problem. Bad SIMs all the way. My SIM went bad, and the other two I tested with happened to both have gone bad. Finally got a good SIM and everything was back to normal.
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BTW - I didn't find this out until after I ordered and received a brand new phone, after assuming my radio was completely broken. I tried all three SIMs in the new phone and none of them worked. You can imagine how pissed off I was. Thankfully - magically - the new phone had a broken vibration mechanism, so I was able to get a full refund, and I'm once again happy with my HOX. Also took the opportunity to flash a clean CM 10.1.3 for a fresh start. Super happy phone.

Screen Blank ! {Issue}

Hi! This is my first time posting something here but I had no choice since a troubleshoot the handset in every single way that I could
Heres my situation, I bought a Samsung Glaxy S4 Mini GT-I9190 last month, then I was riding the bus to go work and suddently my cellphone starts getting stucked, then I restart the handset in order to refresh it ( Regular restart not forced or anything like that ) When the cellphone succesfully restarted the screen wont come up, I heard the booting sound, the lockscreen sound, even I heard some messages coming up but the screen is totally in blank
Already troubleshoot the handset removing the battery, removing the SD Card, SIM card and wait for 5 minutes but the screen didnt show up again... My handset is not rooted and I never dropped or damage it or anything like that. This situation is very frustrated because I HAVE to make so many calls to my girlfriend and my daughter and I'm not allowed to do it.
Can you Pleeeeeeeeeeeease help me out with this!? If you can its well appreciated !!! :crying:

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I think u need to go to Samsung service, nothing u can do "at home"

Drogakit said:
Hi! This is my first time posting something here but I had no choice since a troubleshoot the handset in every single way that I could
Heres my situation, I bought a Samsung Glaxy S4 Mini GT-I9190 last month, then I was riding the bus to go work and suddently my cellphone starts getting stucked, then I restart the handset in order to refresh it ( Regular restart not forced or anything like that ) When the cellphone succesfully restarted the screen wont come up, I heard the booting sound, the lockscreen sound, even I heard some messages coming up but the screen is totally in blank
Already troubleshoot the handset removing the battery, removing the SD Card, SIM card and wait for 5 minutes but the screen didnt show up again... My handset is not rooted and I never dropped or damage it or anything like that. This situation is very frustrated because I HAVE to make so many calls to my girlfriend and my daughter and I'm not allowed to do it.
Can you Pleeeeeeeeeeeease help me out with this!? If you can its well appreciated !!! :crying:
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not sure if this will help, you can try a master reset, also you haven't rooted the phone, but did you flash it.

Drogakit said:
Hi! This is my first time posting something here but I had no choice since a troubleshoot the handset in every single way that I could
Heres my situation, I bought a Samsung Glaxy S4 Mini GT-I9190 last month, then I was riding the bus to go work and suddently my cellphone starts getting stucked, then I restart the handset in order to refresh it ( Regular restart not forced or anything like that ) When the cellphone succesfully restarted the screen wont come up, I heard the booting sound, the lockscreen sound, even I heard some messages coming up but the screen is totally in blank
Already troubleshoot the handset removing the battery, removing the SD Card, SIM card and wait for 5 minutes but the screen didnt show up again... My handset is not rooted and I never dropped or damage it or anything like that. This situation is very frustrated because I HAVE to make so many calls to my girlfriend and my daughter and I'm not allowed to do it.
Can you Pleeeeeeeeeeeease help me out with this!? If you can its well appreciated !!! :crying:
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try using a usb jig to get to download mode and reflash a stock rom ... if u dont have one you can make it by yourself
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Well I take my handset to the assistance because it was under warranty so... I need to wait 15 days in order to have it fixed or they give me a new one... Thank you anyways for helping me out !!! :laugh::good:

LG G3 freezing and restarting, staying in boot loop sometimes

Hello,
Since 2 weeks ago my phone has been started acting all weird. It started with my Phone freezing and restarting itself one morning. It showed the LG logo for a few seconds, then went black and the same thing repeated. LED did not start blinking at first but after a few loops the LED came on, the animation played and phone turned on nicely. No more such problems during the rest of the day.
Fast forward 2 days. It got worse. The freezing and restarting happened more often and at one point it was in the LG logo -> black screen -> LG logo loop for a good 10 minutes before it booted. It also drains my battery about 10% every single time.
So I decided to do a Hard Reset when I managed to keep the phone running long enough. The hard reset process itself worked flawlessly, no issues during the reset what so ever. I though the problem was over until a few minutes after the hard reset when I was reinstalling my apps, it froze and restarted again.
I started googling about the issue and found a few matches. Some people suggested replacing the battery and some suggested putting a piece of paper between the battery and the SIM card slot from which I did the latter. That actually worked for a few days until the reboots came back and it got worse by the day when it finally was completely unusable since it kept restarting after booting up (usually it didn't even get to that point). Then I decided to try a new battery because it was the cheapest option available at that moment.
At first all looked good on a new battery but still, just a few minutes after rebooting the phone from a new battery it froze yet again and restarted itself. So 25€ wasted on nothing.
At this point I'm starting to run out of options and really would not like to buy a new phone since my G3 is only two years old (warranty just ended in October 2016).
Any suggestions are more than welcome at this point.
Best regards,
Taavi

Yesterday I tried flashing the stock V30B marshmallow ROM onto the phone using LG flash tool 2014. It lasted without restarts for about an hour and then it all started again.
So in conclusion:
A) It's not the battery.
B) It's not the software.
C) Thus it must be the hardware.
Since my warranty is void already, the repair costs would probably be quite large.
I think the only chance left for me is to suck it up and buy a new phone.
It was fun while it lasted though. RIP.

Funny thing is that after I removed my SIM card, the issues have stopped for ~24 hours. Yesterday I was able to browse reddit and watch videos for almost 2 hours straight with no issue when I had no SIM card in the phone. I will try inserting the SIM card again after I have fully recharged it to see if maybe it has something to do with the SIM card connection.

Put in the SIM card and it didn't even last 24 hours before restarting. Took it out again. Unfortunately it now restarted even without the SIM card so it still must be some hardware failure.

Same issue here. Changed battery, factory reset, rooted and TWRP+CyanogenMod 14.1 flashed and SU granted.
Constant reboots. Sometimes bootlooped until I remove battery

Having the same problem. Tried new battery but it turned out to be a cheap clone that was worse than old battery. Got another from mbuynow which last longer but still restarts but not that often. Tried the paper trick to to avail. Also tried the LG suite to see if it helped but no luck. Running marshmallow 6.0 and have done a full reinstall. Is this likely to be hardware problem?

Eggstones said:
Having the same problem. Tried new battery but it turned out to be a cheap clone that was worse than old battery. Got another from mbuynow which last longer but still restarts but not that often. Tried the paper trick to to avail. Also tried the LG suite to see if it helped but no luck. Running marshmallow 6.0 and have done a full reinstall. Is this likely to be hardware problem?
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Cannot tell for sure but seems it is a hardware problem which is really sad since besides the restarts the phone is still in very good shape. I would take it to repairs but as my warranty is already void it would make sense to simply buy a new phone and sell the current one to parts.

I have the same problem... I flashed CRDroid or something with Android 7.0, it booted normally, but then, restart after few minutes... It can boot normally with the usb to computer, but not with charger. It can also boot to twrp, wipe, install and fix the system works, installing other roms works too, and they can boot normally, but it shut down, as soon I remove the cable... I thought it was nougat rom, it change some in system files or drivers like battery options... I'm out of options...

beeduq said:
I have the same problem... I flashed CRDroid or something with Android 7.0, it booted normally, but then, restart after few minutes... It can boot normally with the usb to computer, but not with charger. It can also boot to twrp, wipe, install and fix the system works, installing other roms works too, and they can boot normally, but it shut down, as soon I remove the cable... I thought it was nougat rom, it change some in system files or drivers like battery options... I'm out of options...
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Seems like a battery issue I think you need a new battery if it's working without the wire plugged in
Sent from my LG-D852 using Tapatalk

I have 2 phones. This thing seems to puff exactly after 2 years coz they were bought in difrent times and both of them emerge this issue after 2 years for each. boootlops were after few minutes from start. In case of first one new battery was a bingo but i did not investigate second - im going maybe for new phone. Funny thing. Maybe product life time was to planned to good(for producer)?

I was a great phone, longest I have and most customised... Very agile, never had bricked, bootlooped or failed to flash... Thank you for your great support, LG G3.... Rest in Peace... If someone can bring it back to life, I'll be back to that.

I'm counting on someone stumbling on a fix as well. It's still an awesome phone expect for this stupid thing.

I had similar issues but I realized that different SIMs seemed to work with the phone. Went to my carrier and requested a new one. Since then, no issues. Maybe something with the sim card slot?

amd-dude said:
I had similar issues but I realized that different SIMs seemed to work with the phone. Went to my carrier and requested a new one. Since then, no issues. Maybe something with the sim card slot?
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It happens even when my SIM card is not in the phone. It could easily be the SIM card tray but cannot confirm without taking it to repairs.

Did you try disabling Location?
(I had random reboots when the battery went to 25% and when i disabled Location services,it got fixed)

Sotiris02 said:
Did you try disabling Location?
(I had random reboots when the battery went to 25% and when i disabled Location services,it got fixed)
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One of the hard resets I did was from full charge and I didn't enable anything, including location. It still went into the reboot loop.

xenover said:
One of the hard resets I did was from full charge and I didn't enable anything, including location. It still went into the reboot loop.
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It might be a hardware problem in some LG G3 phones.
It began rebooting and bootlooping after 2 days,that i had disabled the location services.
Now i'm thinking of getting a new battery but i don't really think it will do any effect..
So i might buy a new phone..

beeduq said:
I was a great phone, longest I have and most customised... Very agile, never had bricked, bootlooped or failed to flash... Thank you for your great support, LG G3.... Rest in Peace... If someone can bring it back to life, I'll be back to that.
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hi men i think i have the same probleme i flash my phone with nougat rom after same probleme in battery im back in 6.0.1 ROM and after 3 day the phone turn off and star reboot same time he boot normaly for 5 min and rebooot again wath is the solution please ?? i flash it with differnet rom no news ...( sorry for my broken english )

noussair78125 said:
hi men i think i have the same probleme i flash my phone with nougat rom after same probleme in battery im back in 6.0.1 ROM and after 3 day the phone turn off and star reboot same time he boot normaly for 5 min and rebooot again wath is the solution please ?? i flash it with differnet rom no news ...( sorry for my broken english )
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I had the same problem as you,i bought a new battery and everything got fixed.(you need exact the same Model of battery so when you go to a store note the model of the battery)

Temporary Fix
1- Remove the SIM, turn on the phone, put it in Airplane Mode.
2-Insert the SIM turn on the phone.(Don't change Air mode).
3- Turn off auto backup/restore in settings.
4-Go to network setting>Preferred network Type.
5-Turn Off the Airplane Mode and immediately SELECT THE 3G only(Before it catches the signals), in some phones WCDMA only.(Do not Select 4G/LTE/2G).
6-Done
7-Restart the phone.(Now it will not reboot)
Drawbacks:
In 2G signal zone, There will be no signals.
Its a hardware problem,But its a way to trick it.
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